The NCJLT currently offers two contests for Japanese language students: The Yonkoma Manga design contest, and the annual Nengajoo (New Years card design contest). Please read the contest rules carefully as each contest has different requirements and deadlines. Both contests require that the teacher submitting student cards and manga is a paid NCJLT member.

Nengajoo 2008

This year a panel of judges including Japanese nationals, art and foreign language teachers in the area judged the ninth annual NCJLT Nengajo Contest 2008, the year of the Rat. A little over 650 cards from a little over 120 schools were submitted. Congratulations to not only the winners and their teachers but to all those who participated!

NCJLT would like to thank Asia For Kids for their continued support of the NCJLT Nengajo Contest

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Yon Koma Manga 2008

What a wonderful group of manga! NCJLT would like to thank the teachers and students who participated in the second annual NCJLT Yon Koma Manga Competition. It was very exciting to receive all of the fantastic entries this March. Many of these entries are posted on the NCJLT.org site for use in your classroom if you wish to use them. The idea for this contest came from the desire to have students begin to consider story telling as in the four framed pictures on the AP Japanese Language and Culture test. You may view the winners and other entries on our website at www.ncjlt.org.


The idea for this contest came from the desire by post-secondary institutions to have a competition as well as the idea of having students begin to consider story telling as in the four framed pictures on the AP Japanese Language and Culture test. The AP test item actually involves students creating an oral narration of a four celled set of drawings these images or others from manga could be used for this purpose as well.

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